This week marks three years since the disappearance of Abram Arthur Johnson in Conecuh County, Ala.

Abram Arthur Johnson

This week marks the three-year anniversary of the disappearance of a missing Baldwin County man whose vehicle was found abandoned in Conecuh County in February 2018.

According to officials with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), 60-year-old Abram Arthur Johnson was last seen on Feb. 20, 2018 when he left his residence in Fairhope. He never returned and remains missing to this day.

Three days after he was last seen – on Feb. 23, 2018 – Johnson’s vehicle was found abandoned near a powerline cut near Owassa in Conecuh County. Johnson was reported missing to the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Department on March 19, 2018, and ALEA officials issued a Missing Adult Alert regarding Johnson on May 1, 2018. ALEA’s search for Johnson remains active and ongoing.

ALEA officials described Johnson as being a white male with gray, partially white hair and brown eyes. He is 6-foot-3 and weighs about 204 pounds. Johnson would now be 63 years old.

In the years since his disappearance, Baldwin County Sheriff’s officials have reported that, after information regarding Johnson’s disappearance was published on social media and on Mobile-area television stations, the Sheriff’s Department received two different calls regarding Johnson’s whereabouts. Both callers said that they’d seen an individual matching Johnson’s description panhandling in the same general area in Baldwin County. Investigators have been unable to verify if that individual was in fact Johnson.

Anyone in the reading audience with information regarding the whereabouts of Johnson is asked to call the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office at 251-937-0202.

Johnson’s case is one of at least three active missing person’s cases with strong ties to Conecuh County. Officials are still investigating the disappearance of Shari Christine Saunders, 67, of Norfolk, Va., whose red 2010 Toyota Corolla was found abandoned on Aug. 12, 2018. Saunders was last seen alive on video surveillance footage at an Evergreen gas station on Aug. 5, 2018, and her car was found a week later on an unnamed road about three miles off the Range Road in southwestern Conecuh County. Her disappearance remained unsolved as of Tuesday afternoon.

Law enforcement officers are also still investigating the disappearance of 81-year-old woman, Earsie Lee Richardson, who lived in a brick house next door to the Nymph Fire Station. She was reported missing on June 20, 2020. Richardson was last seen wearing yellow pajama pants and a red and grey shirt in the area of Long View Road at Hamden Ridge. She too remained missing as of Tuesday afternoon.

Anyone with information about any of the disappearances mentioned above are asked to call the Conecuh County Sheriff’s Department at 578-1260.